If, in today’s world, a teenage girl was told that her future had been decided a long time ago, she would probably not take the matter lightly. During the early twentieth century though it was quite different. In a time bent on the notion that when a woman reached a certain age, she should be married, Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” brings a different idea to a world that was not close to changing anytime soon. Her story brings light to a fact that is fairly accepted by today’s society, but was shunned during her time. Life before this time demanded tha